Word: classes
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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This week the conflict went beyond peevishness, developed into a first-class row. Italian Foreign Minister Count Ciano sent to British Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax a stiff, formal note, warning that "the coal in question meets an indispensable need in the life and labor of the Italian people," criticizing Britain's coal blockade system it declared the blockade "is of the kind to disturb and compromise economic and political relations . . . between Italy and Great Britain," served notice that Britain would be responsible for "further developments." Next day Britain defiantly announced that it had taken into custody two Italian ships...
Massive, laconic, lantern-jawed Philip Winston Pillsbury, son of the late Director Charles S. of Minneapolis' Pillsbury Flour Mills Co., was known to Yalemates of the class of '24 as Teedyboom. At Yale he was a guard on the undefeated, untied '23 football team, All-American water-polo player, glee-club tenor. Later, smart, hardworking, deadpanned, he spent eight years in Pillsbury operations, became a master miller (able to make flour), became head of Pillsbury's Eastern grocery products division...
Dangerous Thoughts shows U. S. readers the impertinent Hogben intelligence at work in a set of 15 cocky, popularly scientific essays. Two pieces give the blat to Marxian dogmatists, to the theory of the "inevitability" of class war; advise Socialists to realize the importance of the skilled, salaried worker, to bring themselves up to date on technology. Other blats: the scientific ignorance of statesmen; liberal "unbias"; any front against fascism which does not take full cognizance of science; economics as an "exact" science; "humane or gentlemanly" knowledge as against "useful or scientific" knowledge...
...What Germans, to British horror, think of Jews, Britons think of the entire working class. Symptom: fake "eugenists" who glorify the bourgeoisie, pretend to prove the biological inferiority of workers...
...CAPTIVITY - Nevil Shute -Morrow ($2.50). Nevil Shute is a British aeronautical engineer who now holds an important post in the Air Ministry. His last novel, Ordeal, whisked readably through the harrowing experiences of a middle-class family during a raid on England by a thousand enemy bombers. Less exciting than Ordeal, Author Shute's An Old Captivity turns to a peacetime theme-the story of a British aviator who pilots an Oxford archaeologist and his daughter to Greenland in order to make aerial surveys of old Norse ruins. At his best in describing the flight itself, Author Shute complicates...